Day: June 28, 2016

Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and Sweden were elected on Tuesday to serve a two-year stint on the U.N. Security Council, with the Netherlands and Italy locked in a tight race for a remaining spot. Please follow and like us:

Today, at the United Nations General Assembly, elections will be held to fill five non-permanent seats on the Security Council, in which Ethiopia is a candidate country to the seat.The African Union during its 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments held in January endorsed Ethiopia’s candidacy. Please follow and like us:

This may come as a surprise to most Americans, given the trillions of dollars in debt added to the country’s balance sheet and the sacrifices made by the country’s armed forces fighting terrorism and radical Islam since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but according to the Beijing-based Global Times newspaper, which often expresses the views of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the U.S. is the biggest source of global strategic risks. Please follow and like us:

Wanda Diaz Merced studies the light emitted by gamma-ray bursts, the most energitic events in the universe. When she lost her site and was left without a way to do her science, she had a revelatory insite: the light curves she could no longer see could be translated in to sound. Through Sonification, she gained mastery over her work, and now she’s advocating for a more inclusive scientific community. “Science is for everyone” she says. “It has to be available to everyone, because we are all natural explorers” watch her…